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Quick Facts
1874 - 1950
| Term(s) of Office: | |
| December 29, 1921 - June 28, 1926 |
| September 25, 1926 - August 7, 1930 |
| October 23, 1935 - November 15, 1948 |
Born
- December 17, 1874, Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario
Education
- University of Toronto, B.A. 1895, LL.B. 1896, M.A. 1897
- University of Chicago 1896 - 1897
- Harvard University, M.A. Political Economy 1898, Ph.D. 1909
Personal Life
Occupations
- 1900 - 1908 Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour and editor of the Labour Gazette
- 1914 - 1918 Labour consultant, Rockefeller Foundation
- Author
Political Party
- Liberal
- 1919 - 1948 Party Leader
Constituencies
- 1908 - 1911 Waterloo North, Ontario
- 1919 - 1921 Prince, Prince Edward Island
- 1921 - 1925 York North, Ontario
- 1926 - 1945 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
- 1945 - 1949 Glengarry, Ontario
Other Ministries
- 1909 - 1911 Labour
- 1921 - 1930, 1935 - 1946 External Affairs
Political Record
- Industrial Disputes Investigation Act 1907
- Leader of the Opposition 1919 - 1921, 1926
- Old Age Pension 1926
- Appointed Cairine Wilson first woman senator 1930
- Leader of the Opposition 1930 - 1935
- Rowell-Sirois Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations 1937
- Led Canada as Prime Minister throughout Second World War 1939 - 1945
- National Resources Mobilization Act 1940
- Unemployment Insurance 1940
- National Plebiscite on Conscription 1942
- Construction of the Alaska Highway 1942 - 1943
- Family Allowances Act 1944
Died
- July 22, 1950, Kingsmere, Quebec
- Grave site: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario
Source: Canada's Prime Ministers, 1867 - 1994. [Ottawa]: National Archives of Canada, c1994. 20 p.
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